Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1422

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Collection	Paris, Musée National du Louvre
Inventory Number	Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1422
Publication Number	O. Louvre
Current Location	magazine
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Ancient Provenance Site	Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos] Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	archaeological excavation Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser)	(unknown) Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt	unknown
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt () [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution	(unknown)
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution	between 0 and 0
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner)	(unknown) Certainty: high

Object Type	ostracon
Color	pottery, brown
Size (Height \| Width \| Thickness)	63 mm \| 67 mm \| 15,5 mm
Range of Preservation	complete
State of Preservation	Left part broken off in undetermined extent.
Mounting	(non [ostracon])

Localization of Text on Object	convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments	carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Some signs are faded.
Script, Primary	Middle Demotic
Language, Primary	Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout	Wide but unequal line pitch. The text was placed onto the upper two-third of the potsherd, without margins on top and at the sides. The line beginnings are closed to the right rim. The lower third of the potsherd remains uninscribed.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	3	0
Quantity of Columns	1	0
Line Lenght (in mm)	65	0
Column Height (in mm)	35	0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance	65 x 35	0

Modern Title	receipt for yoke tax
Ancient Archives	private archive \| inidividual tax payer
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text	Harnouphis, son of Espmetis
Text Types	documentary \| receipt \| tax receipt
Summary of Content	Psenpoeris, son of Harnouphis, is confirmed by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis, of having paid the yoke tax for the 12th regnal year, in an amount of 2 kite. The issuance was made on declaration of Pachnoumis, son of Payris.
Location of Composition	Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man

Transcription

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1	ı͗n ¹Reading Jan Moje, according to infra-red image.Pꜣ-šr-pꜣ-wr sꜣ Ḥr-nfr ḥḏ qd 2 n ḥḏ n nḥb
2	n ḥsb.t 12 n-ḏr.t Ḥr-nfr ²The nfr is clearyl visible in the infra-red image.sꜣ Ns-pꜣ-mty r-ḫrw
3	Pa-H̱nm sꜣ Pa-Ḥr n ḥsb.t 12 ı͗bd 3 šmw sw 20+x

¹ Reading Jan Moje, according to infra-red image.
² The nfr is clearyl visible in the infra-red image.

convex

1	Thus has brought Psenpoeris, son of Harnouphis, 2 silver kite (for) the yoke tax
2	of the [12th] regnal year. Issued by Harnouphis, son of Espmetis. On declaration of
3	Pachnoumis, son of Payris, in the 12th regnal year, 20+xth of Epeiph.

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ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
8370	man	Pachnoumis, son of Payris	Pa-H̱nm sꜢ Pa-Ḥr	pre-Coptic Egyptian

RulerID	Regnal Year	MonthID	Day Date of the Text	Gregorian Date	dating_comment
Ptolemaios II Philadelphos	12	Epeiph	20+x	-273 September 10 BCE -273 September 19 BCE	Internal dating, with name of the ruler.;

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DatasetID	307245
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	49583
Author	Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 307245 (= Ostr. Paris, Louvre ODL 1422), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).